Biography contributed by Helen Edwards
Annie Cecilia Arlidge is the daughter of Mary Sutherland Allan, born in the Isle of Skye in 1838, and Frederick Jacob Arlidge, an English brickmaker, born in 1833 in Northampton. Frederick arrived in Wellington in 1855 aboard the Surge and made his way to Port Chalmers on the Star. He married Mary Allan in Port Chalmers in 1860, and in 1861 had a stint on the goldfields at Tuapeka. In December that year he leased a section and house in Great King Street, possibly funded by his labours. The Dunedin School of Medicine occupies the site today. Annie Cecilia was born in Dunedin in 1866, the third of ten children born between 1862 and 1878. Her mother died at Port Chalmers on 9 February 1883, aged 44. The family moved to Clyde Street, Roslyn, (later known as Oban Street) about 1887 and lived at 18 Oban Street until about 1947. Annie died in 1936, aged 69 years and is buried in Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery with her mother. Her sister, Isabella Mary Arlidge, signed Sheet 114.
Main sources
ancestry.com
Births death & marriages online. Dept. of Internal Affairs
Cemeteries search. Dunedin City Council
OASES. Toitu Otago Settlers’ Museum
Otago Nominal Index. Hocken Collections, University of Otago.
Stone’s Otago and Southland commercial, municipal and general directory … Dunedin: Stone & Co., 1884-
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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